#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
ALPHABET = string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase + \
    string.digits + '-_'
ALPHABET_REVERSE = dict((c, i) for (i, c) in enumerate(ALPHABET))
BASE = len(ALPHABET)
SIGN_CHARACTER = '$'


def num_encode(n):
    if n < 0:
        return SIGN_CHARACTER + num_encode(-n)
    s = []
    while True:
        n, r = divmod(n, BASE)
        s.append(ALPHABET[r])
        if n == 0:
            break
    return ''.join(reversed(s))


def num_decode(s):
    if s[0] == SIGN_CHARACTER:
        return -num_decode(s[1:])
    n = 0
    for c in s:
        n = n * BASE + ALPHABET_REVERSE[c]
    return n


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print num_encode(6147949342)
    print num_decode('ILoveYou')
